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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Learning to rank for quantity consensus queries
Web search is increasingly exploiting named entities like persons, places, businesses, addresses and dates. Entity ranking is also of current interest at INEX and TREC. Numerical ...
Somnath Banerjee, Soumen Chakrabarti, Ganesh Ramak...
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 12 days ago
Improvements that don't add up: ad-hoc retrieval results since 1998
The existence and use of standard test collections in information retrieval experimentation allows results to be compared between research groups and over time. Such comparisons, ...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Human versus machine in the topic distillation task
This paper reports on and discusses a set of user experiments using the TREC 2003 Web interactive track protocol. The focus is on comparing humans and machine algorithms in terms ...
Mingfang Wu, Gheorghe Muresan, Alistair McLean, Mu...
CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Kernel methods, syntax and semantics for relational text categorization
Previous work on Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval has shown the inadequateness of semantic and syntactic structures for both document retrieval and categoriza...
Alessandro Moschitti
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Unsupervised learning of soft patterns for generating definitions from online news
Breaking news often contains timely definitions and descriptions of current terms, organizations and personalities. We utilize such web sources to construct definitions for such t...
Hang Cui, Min-Yen Kan, Tat-Seng Chua